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PREFACE / ПРЕДГОВОР
No full textThe Third International Conference “Electrical Engineering, Technology, Informatics, Mechanical Engineering and Automation – Technical Sciences in the Service of the Economy, Education and Industry” (ETIMA’25), organized by the Faculty of Electrical Engineering at the “Goce Delchev” University – Shtip, represents a significant scientific event that enables interdisciplinary exchange of knowledge and experience among researchers, professors, and experts in the field of technical sciences. The conference was held in an online format and brought together 78 authors from five different countries.
The ETIMA conference aims to establish a forum for scientific communication, encouraging multidisciplinary collaboration and promoting technological innovations with direct impact on modern life. Through the presentation of scientific papers, participants shared the results of their research and development activities, contributing to the advancement of knowledge and practice in relevant fields.
The first ETIMA conference was organized four years ago, featuring 40 scientific papers. The second conference took place in 2023 and included over 30 papers. ETIMA’25 continued this scientific tradition, presenting more than 40 papers that reflect the latest achievements in electrical engineering, technology, informatics, mechanical engineering, and automation.
At ETIMA’25, papers were presented that addressed current topics in technical sciences, with particular emphasis on their application in industry, education, and the economy. The conference facilitated fruitful discussions among participants, encouraging new ideas and initiatives for future research and projects.
ETIMA’25 reaffirmed its role as an important platform for scientific exchange and international cooperation. The organizing committee extends sincere gratitude to all participants for their contribution to the successful realization of the conference and its scientific value.
We extend our sincerest gratitude to all colleagues who, through the presentation of their papers, ideas, and active engagement in discussions, contributed to the success and scientific significance of ETIMA’25.
CIP - Каталогизација во публикацијаНационална и универзитетска библиотека "Св. Климент Охридски", Скопје62-049.8(062)004-049.8(062)МЕЃУНАРОДНА конференција ЕТИМА (3 ; 2025 ; Штип) Зборник на трудови [Електронски извор] / Трета меѓународна конференција ЕТИМА 2025, 24-25 септември 2025 ; [главен и одговорен уредник Сашо Гелев] = Conference proceedings / Third international conference, 24-25 September 2025 ; [editor in chief Saso Gelev]. - Текст во PDF формат, содржи 357 стр., илустр. - Штип : Универзитет "Гоце Делчев", Електротехнички факултет ; Stip : "Goce Delchev" University, Faculty of Electrical engineering, 2025Начин на пристапување (URL): https://js.ugd.edu.mk/index.php/etima/en. - Наслов преземен од екранот. - Опис на изворот на ден 30.10.2025. - Трудови на мак. и англ. јазик. - Библиографија кон трудовитеISBN 978-608-277-128-1а) Електротехника -- Примена -- Собири б) Машинство -- Примена -- Собирив) Автоматика -- Примена -- Собири г) Инфоматика -- Примена -- СобириCOBISS.MK-ID 6729702
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
The Welcome Address of Mr. Živorad KovǍcević
No full textMember of the Federal Executive Council and President of the Organizing Committee of the Conference</jats:p
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Application of probiotic strains as feed additives in poultry against Campylobacter jejuni
No full textCampylobacteriosis is the most frequent zoonotic disease in the EU in recent years (Hugas et al., 2009) and the bacterial species most frequently implicated is Campylobacter jejuni. Epidemiological data obtained by the European Food Safety Authority have concluded that poultry meat is the major source of campylobacteriosis in humans. An alternative and effective approach to antibiotic administration to livestock to reduce bacterial contamination is the use of probiotics. The aim of the present work is to select probiotics to be used as additives in feed for livestock poultry in order to reduce C. jejuni contamination and therefore enhance the safety of poultry meat.
Methods
55 lactic acid bacteria and bifidobacteria were screened for desirable properties for their use as probiotics: anti-microbial activity against three C. jejuni strains was studied using the spot agar test and the well diffusion assay using neutralized culture supernatants; survival in simulated gastro intestinal tract (pH 2.5 and 1% bile salts) and food/feed processing conditions (50 and 55 °C) was determined and susceptibility to the most diffused antibiotics was checked. The two most interesting strains were separately administered to poultry by oral gavages to evaluate their capability to colonize the GI tract and to estimate their effect on C. jejuni population. Quantification of both administered probiotics and C.jejuni was done via real time PCR.
Results
16 strains out of the 55 tested showed anti-microbial activity against all the three C. jejuni strains. After the well diffusion agar assay, the number of strains showing interesting antimicrobial activity was reduced to 11. These strains were used for further studies: they were found to be sensitive to low pH, whereas the majority of them survived well to exposure to bile salts and well tolerated heat shock at both 50 °C and 55 °C. Most of the strains were sensitive to several antibiotics, including some of the most common compounds used in poultry therapy. On the basis of these activities, two strains, namely Lactobacillus plantarum PCS 20 and Bifidobacterium longum PCB 133, were chosen for the in vivo trial in poultry. The results evidenced that L. plantarum PCS 20 was not present in poultry feces at detectable concentration after two weeks of daily administration, whereas B. longum PCB 133 significantly increased in the feces after administration and its amount was still high after a wash-out period of 6 days. In the same period, C. jejuni concentration in poultry feces was significantly reduced in chickens administered with B. longum PCB 133.
Discussion
A B. longum strain possessing interesting probiotic properties and capable of surviving in the chicken GI tract has been selected in this work. Its marked anti-microbial activity against Campylobacter both in vitro and in vivo make it an excellent candidate for being employed as additives to feed for poultry for the reduction of food-borne campylobacteriosis in humans. Studies are currently being performed in order to develop suitable ways of administering the selected probiotic strain in the feed.
References
Hugas et al. 2009 Trends Food Sci. Technol. 20, 188
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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